Installation overview

You deploy FortiADC-VM on Microsoft Hyper-V by importing a virtual machine.

Before you begin:

• You must have already installed Windows Server 2012 R2 and enabled Hyper-V. Refer to Microsoft documentation for instructions:
  • https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-2012
  • https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh846766.aspx
• Tip: To quickly use remote desktop to control Hyper-V server, turn on the remote desktop function and turn off the firewall on the server side:

netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state on

Resize boot disk

Before you upgrade the image to version 5.1.0, increase the size of the boot.vhd to 2GB.

The size of the boot.vhd prior to 5.1.0 was less than 2 GB. Now, for ADC's deployed after 5.1.0, the boot.vhd is 2 GB by default.

How to resize the bootdisk in Hyper-V

1. Power off the ADC

2. Go to Virtual Machines > ADC > Settings > Hard Drive boot.vhd (not data.vhd)

3. Edit the Virtual hard disk

4. Choose the action Expand

5. Choose the size of the hard disk accordingly. If you are upgrading to 5.1.x, make sure you select a bootdisk size of at least 2 GB.